Help Recent battery drainage problem

[doowopper]

I have a Droid X running Android version 2.3.3. My battery run-time has gone down about 50% over the last week. I have three batteries and this drop occurs with all three. Now, I get about 6 hours of run-time per battery before I have to switch to a new battery or charge the battery in the phone. I have not changed any of my settings or added any apps in the last week. Blue-tooth, WiFi and GPS are off. The brightness on my display is set for about 30%.

Main Battery Usage is as follows:
com.motorola.service.ma 45%
Phone idle 19%
Cell standby 14%
Display 12%
Android OS 4%

What could be causing this sudden decrease in battery run-time and how do I correct it?
Thanks.
Richard

 

[chanchan05]

What apps have you installed? Also Task Killers = increase in battery usage plus it goes against Android's own memory management systems. Sometimes using task killers could mess up Android's own memory management that only a hard reset can fix it.

 

[Unforgiven]

Try clearing data and cache in com.motorola.service.ma as that is using the battery the most. It looks like some blur gone rogue.

 

[Rush]

What could be causing this sudden decrease in battery run-time and how do I correct it? Thanks.

Sometimes we totally ignore the 'obvious' -- (the battery). Most times there isn't anything wrong with the device; we just don't think that the battery could be losing its capability to hold a charge; thus, only gives us minimal amount of usage time than we normally get with a full charge.

Before you go all crazy about what application could be causing this, focus on checking the health of the battery. There are apps on the market that can check how healthy your battery life is.

Note: After about six(6) months of continuous charging, these batteries don't hold charge as well as before. So it would be wise to replace your battery as soon as you start noticing this type of drainage.

 

[EarlyMon]

As this could be specific to the DX, I've moved this to the DX Support forum.

One other thing to check, for whatever reason, sometimes phones can stuck in a syncing loop. To fix, goto Accounts & Sync (or equivalent setting for the DX), turn off all syncing, power down for a minute, power up, restore sync settings.

 

[doowopper]

I found the culprit to my problem. When I clicked Settings>Battery & Data Manager>Battery Usage>com.motorola.service.ma, I discovered that Microsoft Exchange Services was listed as an included package of com.motorola.service.ma. I then remembered that I had recently turned on "Data Push" for my Microsoft Exchange based email. I then unchecked "Data Push" in the email settings for my Microsoft Exchange based email so that my phone used the "Data Fetch" schedule.. After about 12 hours, I checked the Battery Usage settings of my phone. The.com.motorola.service.ma item went from about 45% battery usage to about 8%. My battery life returned to normal.
Richard